In every address on his South American tour, Pope Francis made reference to the poor and the excluded, whether they were with him in person in Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay, or part of the great global body of “suffering humanity”.However, it was in his grand two-hour address to the Second World Meeting of Popular Movements in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, on 9 July that he spelled out in his most explicit terms to date what in his view are the causes of this suffering. He then outlined the essentials of an approach that would change the global economic system for the better.He initially told the thousands of community workers and members of indigenous groups in his audience not to expect a “recipe” for change, saying: “Neither the Pope nor the Church has